Wasted developer time costs businesses billions

UK businesses are inadvertently wasting over £10.4 billion ($12.97 billion) each year as developers manually carry out routine operations tasks that could be automated. Software delivery platform Harness calculates the figure based on the fact that developers spend only around 52 minutes a day on actual coding. The rest of their time is taken up with tasks like unnecessary scripting, manual deployments, inefficient testing processes, and responding to a variety of security issues across the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC). 'We are facing a developer experience crisis,' says Nick Durkin, field CTO at Harness. 'Repetitive tasks such as the maintenance… [Continue Reading]